Cabatuan, Iloilo (Sep 3) - September 3, 2010 marks the 111th anniversary of the 1st issue of one of the 1st
newspapers in Cabatuan - 'La Federacion'.

First published in September 3, 1899, La Federacion was a nationally recognized newspaper of the Philippine revolution and is officially listed in history textbooks among its contemporaries
including La Independencia by Gen. Antonio Luna and La Republika Filipina by Pedro Paterno.

Two copies of La Federacion are now available at Cabatuan.com in their entirety. One is the second issue, published in Sept. 10, 1899,
and the other is the third issue published in Sept. 17, 1899.

These items are officially considered rare by national standards, and yet more so
by
local standards as Cabatuan had suffered two significant fires over the past century, one during the Philippine-American War
and the second during World War II.

Future plans for the two copies would be to transcribe them into text/web format, and then to translate them from Spanish to English or to Kinaray-a.

La Federacion was a weekly newspaper, published every Sunday until Cabatuan (the seat of the revolutionary government, or the insurgent's capital) was captured by American
Forces led by General Robert P. Hughes in November 1899.

Among the Philippine books and textbooks where La Federacion was listed:

The revolutionists: Aguinaldo, Bonifacio, Jacinto; by Epifanio De los Santos; published 1973.

History of the Filipino people; by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Oscar M. Alfonso; published 1969.

A short history of the Filipino people; by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Oscar M. Alfonso; published 1960.

Media and democracy in Asia; by Asian Media Information and Communication Centre; published 2000.

The Philippine revolution; by Gregorio F. Zaide; published 1968.

Philippine political and cultural history; by Gregorio F. Zaide; published 1950.

Emilio Aguinaldo: generalissimo and president of the First Republic; by Alfredo B. Saulo; published 1983.